Engraving

See also: Engraving (homonymy), Engraver

The term engraving indicates at the same time a Technique and its result. For the result, one also often speaks about Estampe or pulling

To engrave consists with Dessin er on an object of digging its Surface. The result can be intended for the direct observation as for the Egyptian engraving or the Sgraffite. In the majority of the cases, engraving is however transposed, after inking, on a support such as the Papier. Among the techniques of this type:

  • the Aquatinte
  • the Burin
  • the Carborundum
  • the Cliché glass
  • the Eau-forte
  • the Gravure with sugar
  • the Gravure will pyroceira, proceeded created by Felix Rozen in 1990
  • the Gravure on wood
  • the Linogravure
  • the Lithogravure
  • the Manière of pencil
  • the black Manière
  • the monotype
  • the Pyrogravure
  • the Pochoir
  • the Pointe dries
  • the Dotted
  • the Copper-plate engraving
  • the Varnished slackness
  • the Xylography

The Imprimerie is resulting from engraving when one realized that one could individually engrave the character S of the writing and to assemble them according to the text to be reproduced.

In fact the Chinese invented the Papier and the techniques of the print and the Imprimerie several centuries before paper does not arrive to Europe. The techniques of engraving are very related to the support, because this one must be not very expensive so that the use of an original recopiable is interesting. The seals leaving a print in wax and engravings being used to create coins are examples of engravings carried out on supports other than paper.

Engraving is considered, with the Architecture, the Peinture, the Sculpture, the Musique and the Danse, like one of the fine art, although this classification fell a little in disuse.

Engraving appeared at the 15th century: the Italian Maso Finiguerra found, in 1452, the means of taking print from a plate which it had engraved for the Midsummer's Day church with Florence. Engraving developed much with the Renaissance, with artists like Andrea Mantegna, Baccio Baldini, Botticelli, Antonio del Pollajuolo, Francesco Francia.

The invention of the etching is allotted to Wenceslas d' Olmütz (1496). François Mazzuoli used it for the first time in Italy about 1530, Albrecht Dürer in Germany towards 1540.

The impact of engraving on the diffusion of the Art and the Science is extraordinary as of the 17th century. The illustration S of the Encyclopedia of Diderot and D' Alembert show how much this art contributed to popularize the Culture.

Since the 19th century, engraving was used with manufacture as postage stamps, of banknotes and musical partitions.
Le engraver often affixes his Signature there.

Other uses of the word engraving

The Sound recording on roller, then on disc, concerned engraving. The term remained, although the technical of manufacture of the CD and DVD is not the same one. By extension, one also speaks to engrave Image S, a Film or Donnée S on a support.

Related articles

External bond

  • Rembrandt van Rijn: Life and Art
  • Manifestampe, National federation of the print
  • Site treating of the contemporary print

Simple: Engraving

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